15824b v. J Callahan’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “First, the SSA considers whether the claimant is currently engaged in substantial gainful employment. If not, then the SSA considers whether the claimant has a “severe impairment” that significantly limits the “ability to do basic work activities.” If the claimant does suffer such an impairment, then the SSA determines whether this impairment is one of those listed in Appendix 1 of the regulations. If the claimant’s impairment is one of those listed, the SSA will presume the claimant to be disabled. If the impairment is not so listed, then the SSA must determine whether the claimant possesses the “residual functional capacity” to perform his or her past relevant work. Finally, if the claimant is unable to perform his or her past relevant work, then the burden shifts to the SSA to prove that the claimant is capable of performing “any other work.””

   28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Simmons v. Commissioner of Social Security · KULAKOSKI v. Barnhart

2. “(.1) Credle last engaged in substantial gainful activity prior to March 5, 1992; (2) Credle suffered from the following “impairments”: prior to July 1, 1995, Credle suffered from low back derangement; since July 1, 1995 Credle has suffered from bulging discs at L3-4, L45, lumbar radiculopathy and chronic pain syndrome; (3) prior to July 1, 1995, Credle’s impairment was “severe” but not “listed”; since July 1, 1995, Credle has suffered from a severe impairment that is the equivalent of a “listed impairment” (Listing 1.05(c)) and has precluded him from working for at least 12 continuous months (thereby raising an irrebuttable presumption of disability since July 1, 1995); (J) prior to July 1, 1995, “the claimant retained the residual functional capacity to perform the exertional demands of sedentary work, or work which is generally performed while sitting and never requires lifting in excess of ten pounds” and, prior to July 1, 1995, Credle “had no significant non-exertional limitations which narrowed the range of work he could perform”; nevertheless, prior to July 1, 1995 Credle did not have the residual functional capacity to perform his past relevant work as a foreman/attendant in a parking garage, as that work involved long periods of standing; and (5) prior to July 1, 1995, based on Credle’s capacity for sedentary work, age, educational background and work experience, there existed other jobs in the national economy that Credle could have performed; therefore prior to July”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Credle v. Apfel

3. “DeChirico is, of course, free to file a new application for benefits, pursuant to the relevant regulations, and to present new evidence of his disability at that time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rivera v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.